the biggest problem with switching away from Mac is losing the ecosystem benefits. When Apple TV automatically knows to fill your iCloud password, all the Apple Watch integration, syncing everything from notes to reminders. I can't see how any Linux can match all that.
Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
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#12Not on my machine with only one files about 100MB. Still Why on earth do they do that? I keep thinking if Apple is deliberately doing it. From Safari constantly writing 100GBs per day on paging, to this. It is the small things Apple no longer cared about which is worrying in terms of company culture.
It could either be a bug, or they clicked on every screensaver in System Settings to download them years ago, or screensaver was set to Random.
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#13It doesn’t download these by default. All the wallpaper and screensaver downloads are user initiated in their respective UI. Did you click the download button on them by any chance, and forget about it?
Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
#14Not Asahi but I recently revived a 10-year-old MacBook Pro (MBP 2015) that had been sitting in my closet for many years by installing Fedora on it. To my surprise, it's fast and sleek, just like a brand new computer. All of the drivers worked!
The laptop now serves as a desktop when I'm at home and as an SSH server when I'm at work. And my 5-year-old M1 MacBook is now sitting in the closet, waiting for its turn in the next 10 years.
Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
#15Unfortunately I think you will find that Linux also has bugs and poor designs
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#16It's sort of insane to switch to an almost completely unrelated operating system because of such a trivial feature as a screensaver.
It doesn't download those screensavers unprompted, you have to actually select them in the System Settings.
It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported features.
I know that Hacker News is not representative of the real world, but gosh, stories like this are crazy.
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#17% du -hcs "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/" 5.1M /Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/ 5.1M total Is this only a thing in latest Sequoia? I've been clicking "remind me later" on the upgrade prompts for a couple weeks, since it seems like there's a story like this with every big release.
I must have used the shuffle screensaver. Who knew a ‘harmless’ feature could quietly eat up ~50 GB of space and bandwidth?
I mean, how else did you expect it to play a random assortment of high quality videos as a screen saver? It's good these aren't bundled, and very few people have metered internet.
Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
#18Unfortunately I think you will find that Linux also has bugs and poor designs
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Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
#19You have to explicitly download these. Just don't do that.
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#20It doesn’t download these by default. All the wallpaper and screensaver downloads are user initiated in their respective UI. Did you click the download button on them by any chance, and forget about it?
And you can remove them once you downloaded them.
Basically OP wanted a reason to switch would be my guess.